Oconto, NE Climate: Temperature by Month
Pulled from NOAA NCEI 1991–2020 normals →: climate measurements used in PlainClimate's documented score
30-year climate normals (1991-2020) from Oconto's primary NOAA station, OCONTO.
The climate verdict for Oconto
Oconto, Nebraska has a mixed annual climate rather than one dominant extreme. Its NOAA normal shows an annual average of 49°F. July is the warmest month at 74°F and January the coldest at 25°F.
- 49°F
- yearly average temperature, NOAA normal
- 144 days
- frost-free days per growing season
Oconto: NOAA 1991-2020 normals describe a typical year, not a forecast. Method: /methodology.
Normals record plate
Sheet USC00256167 · Oconto, NE 49°F mean
TEMP-COOL · RANK-COOL · PHOTO-FINISH · PRCP-UNK · SWING-WIDE · COMF-UNK · LOAD-HEAT · STN-1 · BOOK-PART
- TEMP-COOL 49°F
- RANK-COOL #2,539
- PHOTO-FINISH ≈ Rockford Gtr Ro…
- PRCP-UNK Rain n/a
- SWING-WIDE 49°F
- COMF-UNK Comfort n/a
- LOAD-HEAT 6,471 HDD
- STN-1 USC00256167
- BOOK-PART 4/6 fields
Nearest mean-temperature peer: Rockford Gtr Rockford, IL (+ 0 °F mean)
Instrument codes from this station's NOAA 1991–2020 normals, mean temperature, corpus warmth rank, photo-finish peer station, precipitation band, seasonal swing, comfort composite, degree-day load, and field book, not a livability rating.
Mean-temperature neighbourhood
Nationwide NOAA normal poles and nearest peers, not a reprint of every NE station list.
- Hot Galva, IL 50°F
- Oconto (this station) 49°F
- Cold Polo, IL 49°F
- Near Rockford Gtr Ro…, IL 49°F
- Near Dwight, IL 49°F
Climate Living Index · Oconto
Oconto: 34/100 · grade F
Oconto publishes 3 of 6 Living Index dimensions (NOAA annual/seasonal normals · NOAA daily multivariate normals); 3 missing weights rescale to 100.
PlainClimate-derived for Oconto, not an official NOAA rating. Breakpoints and limits.
| Dimension | Station value | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Annual temperature balance | 49.4°F · 18.1° from 67.5°F | 38/100 · F |
| Normal heat + freeze calendar | 168 calendar days | 34/100 · F |
| Frost-free season | 144 days/year | 21/100 · F |
Oconto · 2026-08-04 · NOAA NCEI Climate Normals · method .
National standing · heating-led station
Where Oconto sits across the climate record
Available NOAA 1991–2020 fields for Oconto are ranked only against stations that publish the same field, missing metrics stay blank rather than estimated.
- Annual temperature
- 37th percentile warmth
- Mid-pack annual mean versus 6,861 station normals.
- Seasonal temperature swing
- Wider than 78%
- Warmest-to-coldest month gap for Oconto is large versus 6,861 complete station-years.
Oconto's measured station temperature trend
MethodologyAcross 33 complete annual observations from 1964 to 2015, OCONTO warmed at a fitted rate of 0.24°C per decade. The line shows the fitted change relative to its first year, not raw year-to-year temperatures or a forecast.
- Oconto primary station fitted change +0.24 °C/decade
Monthly Temperatures
Average daily high and low temperatures by month
| Month | Avg High | Avg Low | Mean | Precip | Freeze Days | 90°F+ Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 38°F (3°C) | 13°F (-11°C) | 25°F (-4°C) | N/A | 30.6 | 0.0 |
| February | 41°F (5°C) | 15°F (-9°C) | 28°F (-2°C) | N/A | 26.7 | 0.0 |
| March | 53°F (12°C) | 24°F (-4°C) | 39°F (4°C) | N/A | 24.2 | 0.0 |
| April | 63°F (17°C) | 34°F (1°C) | 48°F (9°C) | N/A | 12.3 | 0.3 |
| May | 72°F (22°C) | 45°F (7°C) | 59°F (15°C) | N/A | 2.7 | 1.1 |
| June | 82°F (28°C) | 57°F (14°C) | 69°F (21°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 5.3 |
| July | 87°F (31°C) | 61°F (16°C) | 74°F (24°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 11.4 |
| August | 85°F (30°C) | 59°F (15°C) | 72°F (22°C) | N/A | 0.0 | 9.5 |
| September | 79°F (26°C) | 49°F (10°C) | 64°F (18°C) | N/A | 1.2 | 3.8 |
| October | 65°F (18°C) | 36°F (2°C) | 50°F (10°C) | N/A | 10.4 | 0.4 |
| November | 51°F (10°C) | 23°F (-5°C) | 37°F (3°C) | N/A | 25.9 | 0.0 |
| December | 40°F (4°C) | 14°F (-10°C) | 27°F (-3°C) | N/A | 30.4 | 0.0 |
The year, day by day
Summer here tops out rather than builds: the warmest normal high is 88°F around July 19, short of 90°F on every date, while 168 dates carry a normal low at or below freezing, the coldest 12°F near January 10.
The freezing stretch
The normal low stays at or below 32°F into April 8, then returns to freezing around October 24, covering 168 dates in all.
Derived from the normal daily minimum. This is a different measure from the 50%-probability frost dates shown elsewhere on this page, which come from NOAA’s frost product.
The widest day
September 20 carries the biggest normal gap between afternoon and dawn, 30°F between the normal high and the normal low.
Look up any date
Any date's 1991–2020 normal for Oconto.
Monthly Precipitation
Average monthly rainfall
Frost Dates & Growing Season
First Fall Freeze
October 1
50% probability date
Last Spring Freeze
May 10
50% probability date
Growing Season
144 days
Heating & Cooling Degree Days
Annual totals indicate energy demand for heating and cooling
Heating Degree Days
6,471
Higher = more heating needed
Cooling Degree Days
817
Higher = more cooling needed
Warmest Month
July
Coldest Month
January
Nationwide similar cities
Other rankable U.S. places outside NE closest to Oconto on two NOAA annual-normal axes (mean temperature and annual precipitation). Chip rows use distinct link sets.
Closest by average temperature
Nearest out-of-state peers by annual mean temperature (49°F here).
- Adrian, MI 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Albany, NY 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Capulin, NM 49°F · 0.0°F off
- Corning, IA 49°F · 0.0°F off
Data-derived climate profile
How Oconto's climate pattern fits together
heating led · mid swing
Oconto's energy balance leans toward cold weather: 6,471 annual heating degree days against 817 for cooling. Its 49.1°F seasonal range still makes the monthly rows more useful than the annual average alone.
Only about 144 days are frost-free in a normal year. That short interval is consistent with the cold-season signal, but the measure does not predict the exact first or last freeze in any one year.
July and January mark the typical warm and cold ends of the calendar in Oconto's middle-range seasonal profile. The measured spread is 49.1°F. The annual average is 49°F. Neither the annual mean nor one extreme month represents the full calendar on its own.
A moisture-range label is withheld because Oconto's annual precipitation total is unavailable. Monthly source values remain visible where NOAA provides them, and no annual amount is reconstructed from incomplete data.
These labels group NOAA 1991-2020 normals from Oconto's primary station, so the winter figures are a thirty-year average and not a floor: a single hard season can run well below them. Treat each band as a descriptive range for Oconto, not an official NOAA class or a year-ahead forecast.
Questions about Oconto's climate
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Data Sources
Data source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals v1.0.1 (1991-2020). All figures on this page are from Oconto's primary station: OCONTO (USC00256167). For informational purposes only.
Place identity: U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer places. The 2024 Census Gazetteer identifies the exact name-and-state match as an incorporated place (GEOID 3135665). Match rule for Oconto: exact normalized name + state only, no fuzzy expansion, so nearby differently spelled facilities stay unmatched.
On this page every temperature, precipitation, and derived score for Oconto comes from its primary NOAA station record. No figure on this page is typed in by an editor - each value is rendered from NOAA 1991-2020 U.S. Climate Normals. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 1991–2020 normals.